Leviticus 11:8
You must not eat any of their meat, nor touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
In Context
7The pig, although it has a split hoof, does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
Cross References
Leviticus 5:2Or if anyone touches anything God has designated as unclean, whether it be the carcass of an unclean wild animal or the carcass of any livestock that has died, or creeping animal, even if the person did not intend to touch it, he is unclean and guilty.
Hosea 9:3They will not continue to live in Yahweh's land; 1 instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, 1 and one day they will eat unclean food in Assyria. 1
Matthew 15:20These are the things that defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a person.”
Mark 7:15There is nothing from outside of a person that can defile him when it enters into him. It is what comes out of the person that defiles him.”
Acts 10:10He then became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the people were cooking some food, he was given a vision,
Acts 15:29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, blood, things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, it shall be well with you. Farewell.”
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:2-9
Distinction of Meats. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. 3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. 4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is… Read the whole commentary →